As usual, an extremely high standard this week with some exceptional efforts but regrettably it's not possible to comment on them individually. Some nice touches include red elf's geography, GK's question, ab's mechanics, busby, Les & mrw's history, fiery & therogues fashion awareness and ixion's woolly woolly.
However, I've previously indicated my penchant for extraction anagrams and my top 3 clues this week are all superb examples of these. Fiery's use of the Glasgow Herald's weekly prize crossword @8 was inspirational, stevez's "fireball" (welcome if you're new to the forum!) lanolin extract @9 very appropriate but my winner is BBM2's "classic" @18:
Read Mark Twain's works, no dramas just homespun yarns
Get those needles out, I reckon football colours would look good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xelzuMUZZ0